One thing people need to understand is
The elite wealthy, the 1%, moreover the .1%, they are not important to the economy. We are. People who spend and spend often. We are consistently rotating our money back into the economy, back into the communities we live in.
The reason there should be legislation that makes the wealthy, and corporations, pay higher taxes - is because they don't put in to the economy. That's how they got as wealthy as they are.
It's not wrong to have wealth. No one is saying that. It is not wrong to be financially successful. It's not wrong to be a CEO or president of a company.
However, when you are hoarding money, and removing it from the economy, that destabilizes the economy. That takes circulation out of the economy. That takes money from everyone else. When people move money out of the country into tax havens in other countries, that money can't be used for our countries economy.
The economy composes the veins of our government. It is important to circulate it throughout the entire body.
First I want people to remember that Real Rich people, they didn't 'earn it'. They were born into it. Maybe they grew that wealth, but they did not grow up poor, having to sacrifice their life to make financial success. Second, remember that financial wealth isn't everything and it does not denote your worth as a human being. What money DOES do, is pay for food. Housing. Clothes. Peace of mind. A vacation once a year. And make no mistake, the ability to afford idle time is not a privilege, it is absolutely a right.
To have so much wealth that you are single handedly destabilizing the economy, is a human rights violation, not just an ethical dilemma.
When you have more, you help more. When you have more time, you help more. When you have more food than you can eat, you share it.
It shouldn't be a threat. It should be something we do for eachother as human beings. It shouldn't be a threat that the 1% should pay more into our system than I do. I make 20k a year. Someone who makes 2 Billion dollars a year can and should pay more into a system we all agreed to pay into.
I genuinely do not understand this animosity. I understand the system that fostered this animosity. But we as humans can and should overcome the oppressive systems that pit us against eachother.
The elite wealthy should pay into the community of the United States. Because they can. Because they are human and we are human, point blank. And there should be no question as to whether or not the elite wealthy should assist the economy they benefit from.
I can speak on this all day, because this isn't even a fraction of the reasons why Jeff bezos amassing over 500 billion is a problem and a humanitarian issue. And it doesn't just affect our economy. It affects the global economy.
We are all human first a foremost. We were all born alone and we will all die alone. Money will not change that
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